You should have tried the direct approach, one year (94 i think) we decided to forgo the usual scramble to get through the doors in the concrete wall on the finish straight. After a heavy day of drinking beer and whisky(not together) and a stagger back from arnage (that evening when the coach stopped for food my brother and i literally had to help each other out of the coach due to the pain of that walk)
We thought better idea is to go over the top, after staggering past a few houses i saw an old french door minus the glass leaning against a shed in someones garden. I fell through the hedge and picked it up, unable to get back through the hedge i walked out the drive, it was then i heard some voices and looked over to see the family having a meal all looking at me, i nodded at them and carried on. No one stopped me, i wondered if they even mentioned it to each other.
The idea was a good one, i made it over, sadly my brother plumetted to earth when someone else jumped on it and it broke.